Window weight



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A. F. WIXSON WINDOW WEIGHT Filed Jan. 4, 1923 "tern fen, each size.

aeaeae sir "stars r ALIBION F. W'IXSCN, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

'WINDOVJ' HEIGHT.

Application filed January 4, 1923. Serial no. 610,589.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBION F, lVIxsoN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State ofMinnesota, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in WindowWeights, and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same;

My invention relates to-window weights and has for its object to providea weight capable'of being readily broken into a plurality of sections ofpredetermined: weight. As a salient feature of this invention, I'soconstruct the weight that the separated sections at the breaking linewill have ends prepared to receive coupling devices. This featurepermits all of the sections of a weight to be utilized, eitherindividually or recoupled together in any desired order to make up asectional weight of substantially any desired heaviness. The weight mayhave any suitable form in cross-section and ,it may consist of two ormore sections or portions capable of being readily broken apart. 7

To meet the demands of the trade, it has, as is well known, hithertobeen considered necessary and it has been the common practice to makewindow weights in a very large number of different sizes, requiring apat- It is not an uncommon thing for a dealer to carry as much as fromthirty to forty different sizes of window weights, and as some of thesesizes are always running out ahead of others, the deal er finds itnecessary frequently to give small orders to fill in with the depletedsizes.

In some cases, it has already been the practice to provide a windowweight with a small end section capable of being broken off to reducethe size of the weight, but the broken-off portion has necessarily beentreated as wasteor used for scrap-because no provision has hitherto beenmade for coupling together or individually using as a weight any of thebroken-off sections.

My invention practically revolutionizes the scheme of making, carryingin stock and using window weights and makes it possible for a dealer toreadily meet all of the de- 'mands for the various different windowthree different sizes of my improved windowweights. For example, thethree sizes carriet might be as follows: 1. A window weight made up ofthree sections capable of being readily broken apart and the sectionsthereof in poundsrepresenting 12-1l--14. 2. A. second or similar windowweight in which the sections in pounds represent 68- l0; and 3, a thirdweightin which the sections in pounds represent 5-7-9. Three such windowweights, capable of being broken into sections such as indicated andreassembled in any desired order or used separately, will afford meansfor producing substantially all of the different sizes of win dowweights that will be required by the trade. In fact, a singlethree-section weight such as noted, will give a considerable range ofvariation in weight.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the inventioi1,-likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. l is an elevation with some parts sectioned, showing such a windowweight designed with a rectangular crosssection; and

Fig. 2 is a perspective showing a portion of one of the window weightsections and particularly indicating the line on which it is broken andthe condition of that end of the weight section.

The weight illustrated is made up of three sections Z) and c which areadapted to be readily broken apart on definite lines by casting V-shapedchannels 3 at the places where the separation of the sections should bemade. The upper and lower end-s of the complete weight are alsopreferably beveled at 4:.

Window weights are usually hung on the lower ends of cords or chains,and to adapt such to be inserted into the ends of the weight, the latteris formed at its ends with axial passages 5 that load to the centralportions of diametric or transverse passages 6. To give to the brokenends of the weight sections the same construction as is provided at theends of the main weight, axial holes. 7 are extended longitudinally ofthe weight from diametric or transverse passages 8, which latter arelocated on opposite sides of the breaking lines afforded by the channels3.

The passages 56 and Z8 may be readily formed, in the process of castingthe weight,

